Thompson v. Civil Service Commission of Provo City

LARSON, Justice.

The District Court of Utah County issued a peremptory writ of mandate directing defendants, Civil Service Commission and the members thereof to reinstate plaintiff in his former position in the Classified Civil Service of Provo City; and directing the other defendants to pay plaintiff certain sums found by the court to be due plaintiff as back salary, as a member of the Provo City Fire Department. Defendants appeal. The case grows out of the following-facts :

For more than twenty years plaintiff had been with the Provo City Fire Department; from 1925 to 1938 as a first-class…